Descript |
x, 229 p. ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction: sex work and the politics of public policy -- International trends in the control of sexual services -- Into the galactic zone: managing sexuality in neoliberal Mexico -- Sex work and the state in contemporary China -- Smart sex in the neoliberal present: rethinking single parenthood in a Mexican tourist destination -- On the boundaries of the global margins: violence, labor, and surveillance in a Rust Belt topless bar -- The virtues of dockside dalliance: why maritime sugar girls are safer than urban streetwalkers in South Africa's prostitution industry -- "Their own way of having power": female adolescent prostitutes' strategies of resistance in Cape Town, South Africa -- "Hata watufanyeje, kazi itaendelea": everyday negotiations of state regulation among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya -- Prostitution in contemporary Rio de Janeiro -- Prevailing voices in debates over child prostitution -- Organizational challenges facing male sex workers in Brazil's tourist zones -- "What is the use of getting a cow if you can't make any money from it?": the reproduction of inequality within contemporary social reform of Devadasis -- Moral panic: sex tourism, trafficking, and the limits of transnational mobility in Bahia. |
ISBN |
9780814785096 |
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0814785093 |
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